Events occuring on 2/12/2026

McCallum Theatre - Palm Desert - Presents:
McCallum Theatre 2025-2026 Season
9/10/2025 - 5/7/2026 (next performance: Tuesday, 2/10/2026)

McCallum Theatre 2025-2026 Season Get Ready For An Exciting New Season! Expanded Program – Over 20 Brand New Shows! 8 Broadway Shows – McCallum Audience Favorites – Classical – Dance – Comedy – Cabaret and much more!

La Jolla Playhouse - La Jolla - Presents:
The Recipe
2/10/2026 - 3/22/2026 (next performance: Tuesday, 2/10/2026)

Before Julia Child became the TV personality that we all know, she careened from Pasadena to New York to Washington D.C. to Ceylon and finally to Paris’s famed Cordon Bleu cooking school. A funny and delicious new play about the early life of an endlessly fascinating character and her path from confusion to discovery, failure to success.

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara - Presents:
The Shark Is Broken
2/4/2026 - 2/22/2026 (next performance: Tuesday, 2/10/2026)

It’s 1974. The set of Jaws. The mechanical shark is malfunctioning, the schedule is in shambles, and three actors - Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, and Roy Scheider - are stuck on a boat, battling egos, alcohol, and artistic frustration. A razor-sharp, behind-the-scenes look at the making of one of the greatest films of all time.

The Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project - Los Angeles - Presents:
Darryl Maximilian Robinson Presents Puck's Epilogue Speech of DREAM at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
2/7/2026 - 3/5/2026 (next performance: Tuesday, 2/10/2026)

The 2022 Making The World Happening Award Winner and 2024 Broadwayworld Los Angeles Award Nominee for "The Front Page" provides a new video theatre rendering of a famed speech byone of The Immortal Bard's most delightful and magical characters.

Pasadena Playhouse - Pasadena - Presents:
Amadeus
2/11/2026 - 3/8/2026 (next performance: Wednesday, 2/11/2026)

The stage is set for a riveting rivalry between two composers: Antonio Salieri, the court’s celebrated musician, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the vulgar prodigy whose brilliance threatens everything Salieri holds dear.

San Luis Obispo RepertoryTheatre - San Luis Obispo - Presents:
Million Dollar Quartet
1/30/2026 - 3/8/2026 (next performance: Wednesday, 2/11/2026)

This high-energy jukebox musical is a celebration of music history, packed with heart, humor, and pure rock ‘n’ roll magic.

A Noise Within - Pasadena - Presents:
Richard III
2/8/2026 - 3/8/2026 (next performance: Wednesday, 2/11/2026)

Richard manipulates, marries and murders a path to the top at A Noise Within in the original ‘Game of Thrones.’

Geffen Playhouse - Los Angeles - Presents:
SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA
2/4/2026 - 3/8/2026 (next performance: Wednesday, 2/11/2026)

A darkly funny, gripping world premiere from rising playwright Beth Hyland, this tragicomic thriller explores creativity, obsession, and our ghosts that refuse to be ignored.

Rubicon Theatre Company - Ventura - Presents:
The 39 Steps
2/11/2026 - 3/1/2026 (next performance: Wednesday, 2/11/2026)

A missing spy. A mysterious woman. A man on the run. When an ordinary man stops to help a stranger, he’s catapulted into a high-speed chase across the Scottish countryside — with only his wits (and a trench coat) to survive. This fast-paced farce features over 150 characters played by just four actors in a whirlwind of costume changes, clever staging, and nonstop laughs.

The Soraya - Northridge - Presents:
Jazz Club: Anat Cohen Quartetinho
2/11/2026 - 2/12/2026 (next performance: Wednesday, 2/11/2026)

Featuring Vitor Gonçalves, Tal Mashiach, and James Shipp __ Widely considered one of the best clarinet players in the jazz world, Anat Cohen brings to The Soraya her vibrant Quartetinho (Portuguese for “little quartet”) equipped with vibraphone, accordion, piano, bass, and percussion. With two albums under the quartet’s belt, the Israeli artist leads the group in an eclectic mix of originals

LA Philharmonic - Los Angeles - Presents:
Dudamel Conducts Beethoven and Lorenz Featuring Yunchan Lim
2/12/2026 - 2/15/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

An exploration of Enlightenment ideals through Beethoven and his contemporaries.

South Coast Repertory - Costa Mesa - Presents:
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1/24/2026 - 3/21/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

Two Tony Award-winning plays performed in repertory, alternating nightly, with one set, overlapping casts and unlimited firepower!

Whitefire Solofest - Sherman Oaks - Presents:
Escape from Miami
Thursday, 2/12/2026

A former journalist and runway model recounts a darkly funny, true-life journey through Miami’s wild ’80s and ’90s, from a haunting true-crime discovery to dangerous encounters with cocaine cowboys, rock stars and killer con men. Escape from Miami is a raw, autobiographical solo show about survival, resilience, and transformation.

Palm Canyon Theatre - Palm Springs - Presents:
Hair
2/6/2026 - 3/1/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

Hair helps to bring the spirit of the 60s back to life in beautiful Palm Springs at Palm Canyon Theatre. A vibrant rock musical bursting with freedom, rebellion, and powerful anthems, Hair captures the spirit of the 1960s counterculture.

The Bent - Palm Springs - Presents:
In the Wake
2/12/2026 - 2/28/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

The Bent Theatre brings Lisa Kron’s (FUN HOME) In The Wake to the Coachella Valley beginning Thursday, February 12 at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. Directed by Laura Stearns, this bold, emotionally resonant, and sharply funny play explores love, friendship, and family, and the collision between personal ideals and lived reality.

Tim von Gal - Palm Springs - Presents:
Intersect Palm Springs 2026
2/12/2026 - 2/16/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

We are realigning the dates of our next event to coincide with one of the Coachella Valley’s busiest weeks in Art and Design — Modernism Week! To accommodate this calendar shift, the fair is set to return FEBRUARY 12-16, 2026 at the Palm Springs Convention Center.

La Jolla Music Society - La Jolla - Presents:
Juan Diego Flórez
2/5/2026 - 2/12/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

OperaWire says “Juan Diego Flórez is one of the greatest tenors in the world. Of that there can be no doubt.” The reigning “King of the High Cs” brings us a program filled with operatic gems including songs by Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Gounod, and Puccini, showcasing why he’s one of the most in-demand tenors singing today.

Village Green Productions - Los Angeles - Presents:
Kid Gloves
1/15/2026 - 2/15/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

Dive into the candy-colored chaos of a reality-TV competition where children's entertainers compete for the chance to win their own show. Fast-paced, hilarious, and sneakily poignant, KID GLOVES skewers the utter depravity of reality TV and how it can corrupt even the most wholesome element of humanity.

Modernism Week - Greater Palm Springs - Presents:
Modernism Week
2/12/2026 - 2/22/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

Palm Springs is the epicenter of midcentury art, architecture, and culture. Activities include home and neighborhood architecture tours, bus tours, art shows, shopping, film premiers, as well as engaging talks and presentations. In addition you'll find food, cocktails, live music, and evening entertainment. Browse all 2026 activities, purchase tickets, and plan your Modernism Week today.

Chance Theater - Anaheim - Presents:
Once
1/23/2026 - 3/1/2026 (next performance: Thursday, 2/12/2026)

On the Cripe Stage… Get ready to experience the heart and soul of Once! This intimate musical, based on the Academy Award-winning film, tells the story of a Dublin street musician and a Czech immigrant whose chance encounter sparks a week-long collaboration full of music, dreams, and unexpected connection.